The historic Voet van Afrika Marathon, at Bredasdorp in the Overberg has been cancelled for this year. In what is regarded as bad news for South African athletes and the Overberg community the organising committee, including Mega Group, the Bredasdorp Athletics Club and the local authorities have to announce regretfully and after days of serious […]

Global athletic leader New Balance announced their official signing of the technical footwear and apparel multi-year sponsorship contract for the Comrades Marathon, the world’s greatest ultra marathon and one of South Africa’s premier sporting events.

Claude Moshiywa interview – 1. We are counting down days till Comrades Marathon on the 2nd of June, 17 to be exact. How has the training been going? My training has been excellent this year. In 2011 I got my best up run result, so based on that result and the training I did then […]

Stephen Muzhingi interview – 1. We are counting down days till Comrades Marathon on the 2nd of June, 17 to be exact. How has the training been going? Yes it is close now to race day. The training has been fine. I feel that I am in as good shape I was at the last […]

The legendary Zola Budd will be part of a field of nearly 20000 athletes to take to the road for the 2013 Comrades Marathon on Sunday, 2 June. Budd completed her first ever ultra-marathon last year alongside good friend and Comrades veteran Bruce Fordyce who finished his thirtieth race. The pair ran the last 25 […]

Tuesday, 23 April 2013 – Over the past weekend, Sibusiso Nzima finished sixth at his first marathon ever while Irvette van Zyl (formally Van Blerk) became the fifth fastest female marathon athlete in South African history after finishing 10th at the London Marathon.